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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2015
Applicant:
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Ippei Akiyoshi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/741 (2013.01); H04L 12/717 (2013.01); H04L 12/721 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/74 (2013.01); H04L 45/42 (2013.01); H04L 45/566 (2013.01);
Abstract
A communication system includes a first node to forward a received packet according to a path identifier included in an additional header, which corresponds to a forwarding path of the received packet, a second node placed in an edge of network, configured of the first node, and to process the received packet according to a packet processing rule, and a controller to send, to the second node, the packet handling rule which indicates to add the additional header to the received packet, wherein the second node requests the packet processing rule to the controller when the packet processing rule for the received packet is not set in the second node.